Jazz/soul. Latin/R&B. The sounds filled the air over and around the Peace Garden Saturday afternoon at the Egleston Square Main Street “Celebrate Egleston Square/Volume 1 Episode 3.”
Opening featured artist April Stanford moved the audience with her powerful vocals, accompanied by rhythm guitarist Sean Rosati, who twirled and swirled the steel string mellow melodies and smooth tempo around her voice.
Ricky Reyes and his five piece band Cosmic Jibaros followed.
They played a set of what can be loosely described a lot of Latin music mixed to a boil with R&B. Ricky Reyes was lead vocal and played amplified acoustic backed by bassist Danny Torres; Marcos Torres played elegant keyboard when he wasn’t sharing the rhythm section with drummer Chris Stanley. Reyes doesn’t jump around and break guitars but he absolutely owns the stage on which he sings and plays
The Jamaica Plain News was in the house. Heres a sample of what we saw.